[Shop-talk] Winterizing (summerizing?) an engine?

[Larry Spector]

I have a 2-stroke Toro snowblower that I "summerize" by draining the fuel,
and then running 'til it starves. It's restarted on the first or second
pull every time I pull it back out of storage.

-Larry

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 2:07 PM Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I have a snowblower. It might not get used at all in a winter, it might
> get used ten times. And I have a long driveway, so I don't want to sell it.
>
> I would like to winterize it such that next October if I want to fire it
> up I don't have to do what I did this February and disassemble it in the
> cold to get it to run.
>
> It doesn't have a battery, so this is a gas/carb. issue only.
>
> Is it best to drain most of the gas and let it run until it dies from
> starvation? Would that leave residue on the jets that might varnish? I'm
> hesitant to use Sta-bil--I had a bad experience with that once. Drain the
> gas, take it apart and spray everything with carb cleaner or the like?
>
> This is the first engine I have that might sit for two years straight then
> need to get fired up as quickly as possible, so I'd like to do this right.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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